Dr. Cassy Burleson

Full-Time Lecturer in Journalism

Phone: (254) 710-3492
E-mail: Cassy_Burleson@baylor.edu
Office: Castellaw 235

Courses

• Advanced Public Relations
• Writing for Media Markets

Degrees

• University of Texas, Ph.D.
• University of Texas, Master of Arts in English
• Baylor University, Master of Arts in Journalism
• Sam Houston State, Bachelor of Arts in Journalism

Year Started at Baylor

• 2003

Background

• Newspaper and magazine reporter and photographer
• Textbook editor and curriculum developer
• Development officer
• Executive director of a large consortium in the Texas Hill Country
• Taught courses at the high school, community college and university levels
• Proposal reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education
• National consulting on education

Accomplishments

• Kellogg Fellow: taught graduate students from Texas A&M and North Carolina State in France, Germany, Belgium and Great Britain
• Co-wrote and edited a book later listed among the Top 10 in education book sales at Jossey-Bass
• National Task Force to rewrite the Carl D. Perkins Technical/Vocational Act of 1995
• Former member of the Program Improvement Council and the Student Services Advisory Board for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (California-Berkeley)
• Long-time Executive Board member of the Texas Association of College Technical Educators

Interests & Hobbies

• Sculling
• Baylor crew

Favorite Thing about Teaching

• The students

Favorite Thing about Baylor

• The tradition